girls:
6.3k births since 1945
#2086 (64th percentile)
overall:
6.3k births since 1945
#3417 (56th percentile)
The name Kandace is the #3,417 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,308 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 55.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,086 (63.5% percentile) for all time with 6,308 births since 1945.
Kandace first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (first recorded for girls in 1945).
For girls, Kandace reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 32.6% percentile (ranked #545) with 145 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 145 births per million (ranked 32.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1991, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kandace ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 7.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kandace".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Kandace. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.4% confident that Kandace is pronounced as KAN-duhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAN-days, at 34.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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